The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-30
INCREASE SINCE 1850

IN FOunu uSureS, total increase OF SSl4.Uuu.uJ
Bear in mind, also, that the total in
crease of products, farm, live stock, fisher
les and manufactures in the South for the
past six years has been 1852. 000, 900, or So
per cent, with an increase of only II per
cent. in population; also that we have
gained in assessed value since 1880 $685., Co.,
900, or ~ per cent.
''The fact of the business is, the South
has the richest soil, the best minerals and
forests 80 per cent. of all the arabic land in
the United States, and can offer cheap
homes to fivefold our present population, in
a land where they can work twelve months
of the year.
1--WE have 239, O00, 900 acres covered with
forests, and the value of our pine alone
would, if cut and marketed, be equal to the
present total assessed values of all the South
ern States.
Every Southern community is earnestly
soliciting immigrants from the North. We
want skilled mechanics, farmers and fruit
growers. No locality in the world offers
such an inviting field for investment
I'm 1926 our paternal government laid
out the cities of Florence, Triana and Bridge
port, on the Tennessee river, and put town
lots on sale. Presidents jackson, Madison
and Monroe lent their presence to the South
ern boom by attending the sale at Florence,
Ala, where town lots sold as high as 5000.
These prices were based upon the eX-
pectation of furnaces, coal mines and manu-
features. The difference between the boom
of our daddies' and that of to-day is that we
have built the furnaces and are building
more. We have opened our coal mines and
are opening more. Instead of having to de-
pend wholly upon the opening Of rivers, we
have railroads with branches spreading out
to every mine and furnace, in addition to
the water ways, and far in excess of the
dreams of our paternal statesmen.
''As we are ON the subject, he continued,
II may as well give the young men of the
| North who contemplate changing homes a
| pointer and some of your elderly manu-
! facturers may profit by it,
| "Weh have raised very good crop of boys
| since our little unpleasantneSs ended some
twenty-four years ago. They are hammering
iron, making buckets and tubs and master
ing the agricultural implements you kindly
sent to our expositions, instead of spending
their time bossing darkies. ! don't think
! they have begun to make wooden nutmegs
sas yet, but they are at work
Nj Their 'daddies have pretty generally
gone to work since they discovered that,
under the provisions of the civil service
regulations, no Confederate need apply
for office embraced within the classified
| lists. Moreover, in every Southern State
| agricultural and mechanical schools have
| been established, and more are being built
I'm our twenty-one industrial schools we
have 8, 126 boys receiving industrial train
ing now, and hope soon to increase the
number to 100000. Every little rebel
of this new crop is arming himself to fight
for the industrial independence of the
South He is not afflicted with the slight
est sentiment of disloyalty to the old flag
on the contrary, patriotic feeling is grow
ing in him. These boys have discovered
that the South has BesSemer ores enough to
supply the market with cheap American
steel, and patriotic instincts prompt them
to look forwarfko the time when they will
fortify the cEFfSry, build up the navy and
reduce the aus.
by tht kaathis new crop of boys is
turned lod Enye forests and on the iron
hills, their 1elIS will, at the present rate of
increase, h&kSdaoney enough to build them
shops and N saem tools and machinery,
and then theS2 viii be trouble for the man
ufacturer over the border
Your young men that desire to change
residence and set up for themselves your
manufacturers that want to get close to
cheap and abundant raw material, and your
capitalists seeking good investments had
better come down and occupy the fort
within five years you will pay five times
the present prices of coal, iron and wood
lands, just as the present purchasers are
paying five times the prices paid five years